The plot has thickened in regards to the recent Chief Keef shooting in NYC, and it’s centers around Tekashi 6ix9ine, as he has a direct connection to a person of interest. According to TMZ, NYPD investigators are calling Tekashi a “known associate” of one of 2 men seen on surveillance cameras tracking Keef around NYC in the hours before someone opened fire on him outside the W Hotel in Times Square.

As was reported, NYPD was taking a closer look at 6ix9ine’s potential ties to the men who followed Keef from a downtown Manhattan restaurant, and then uptown to the hotel.

Not suspects, police are calling the men “persons of interest” in the attempted shooting of Keef. It’s unclear if there’s video showing them actually firing at, but missing Keef.

Keef and Tekashi have been going back and forth on social media for months. However, Tekashi’s camp says he was in L.A. at the time of the shooting, and when he was on “TMZ Live,” he denied any involvement in the incident, and downplayed any static with Keef.